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Ann Hell - The Mask (2000)

Voice, keyboards, guitars and programming by Angel Ortega

All tracks composed and arranged by Angel Ortega except Dies Irae composed by Hector Berlioz, arranged by Angel Ortega



Ann Hell Home Page: http://www.triptico.com/annhell/

Author's Email: angel@triptico.com



Song List

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1. Prince Prospero Meets the Red Death

2. I Am Earth

3. The Abyss Attraction

4. Bag of Heads

5. Ghouls Like Us

6. Crime (Reprise)

7. Don't Look Back (Never Look Back)

8. Dies Irae

9. Land Without God

10. The Fire Within (Jump into Oblivion)

11. Epilogue (Death of the Ebony Clock)



Lyrics

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Prince Prospero Meets the Red Death

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Instrumental



I Am Earth

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I am earth

I am part of the ground

Life spawns over me

The earth resurrects

because I'm dead

Who can ever imagine

being dead is like this

Back to earth

But I'm not alone



The Abyss Attraction

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How can you explain this anxiety inside your veins

and warm this unbearable snatch of fury

a life is betrayed between your hands

dripping and tearing



you feel the abyss attraction

you feel the abyss attraction



how can you get better when you feel pleasure inflicting pain

and no one is there to make you see you are wrong

loose your body in rooms of misery

all your senses are useless



you feel the abyss attraction

you feel the abyss attraction



Bag of Heads

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Hounds breathing near your tracks

Your heart pumping in your chest

Crossing the fields like a raging bull

As the night falls across the land

He was the hunter now is the prey

Carrying a gun, and a bag of heads



Ghouls like us

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Instrumental



Crime (Reprise)

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Inner sea under the burning sun

calling me the guilty of a crime

a million miles so long lost in the desert sand

undercover of this sinner light

my hidden name is more than you will never know of me

- that's the crime



Don't Look Back (Never Look Back)

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your ghost is back at home

he's behind you

hear his little footsteps



don't look back never look back



it was so many years ago

you driving drunk over the child



it's hard to be a normal man

when someone whispers in the dark

little boy with bloody face

trapped inside the car engine



don't look back never look back



motor



Dies Irae

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Instrumental



Land Without God

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Instrumental



The Fire Within (Jump into Oblivion)

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how many times I felt like this

how many times wasting the fire within



i watch you from the distance

remembering i had you,

here between my arms



you leaved me when you knew

i wasn't what you hoped

it's not nice to realize

of being socially challenged



i know I'm not funny

not like the men you go out with



but remember I was there

when you had nothing

nothing but a cold empty heart



and how we spent so many nights

dancing never let me down again and

a lover spurned

you little stupid bitch



i hear you laughing

and it's like laughing about me again

but you can feel lucky

if i just obey the voices i hear

telling me to kill you



i'm here feeling the fire within again



by the river we shared

everything remains the same

your stupid smile of bitch

echoes forever



but now it's only the bridge,

the river and me

i'll jump into oblivion

good night



Epilogue (Death of the Ebony Clock)

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Instrumental